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This cache is located on state game lands, not far into the woods and between the creek and the road, please be careful and wear bright orange during hunting season.
The road is a dirt road, with lots of traffic, well maintained in winter, You may need to park along side of the road, there is a curve in the location of the cache,park so both sides of the curve can see your car.
While doing some historical research on the history of Oakland Township, for some friends I found this interesting story concerning the "Witch of Dempseytown" the story is in the History of Venango County book that my parents have. The story goes as follows: During the early settlements of Oakland Township there was a cabin located near the Sunville road, on the banks of Sugercreek, in this cabin lived a young lady that seems to be bewitched with the powers of a demon. All of the fine ladies of Dempseytown found it to be challange to rid this lady of the demon. So They devised an plan to have a seventh son of a family go to her hoping the purity of the seventh son would do the trick. The seventh son attacked the location where he thought the demon might be with a club, and placed knives and broken glass in between the logs of the cabin, and placed a horseshoe above the door. This didn't work, next came a retired solder of the war if 1812 and he ordered the demon away,as he ordered his troops in the war, this also didn't work, finally the find ladies of Dempseytown moved the young lady from that location to another cabin across sugarcreek because all knew that a demon cannot cross water. After the move it seems the demon was still present. and this baffled the fine ladies of Dempseytown, Until it was found that they failed to locate a old oak tree that had fell over sugercreek and the demon must have crossed it. The story ends with the whole issue fading away with time and the young bewitched lady finally married and she was found to have a medical problem the was controlled by medicine
There was no way to locate the location of the cabin, so I placed this cache in a location that I used to camp and fish in as a child, I used to spend most of the summer days just lounging at this site, and enjoying the sounds of nature, take a minute and enjoy the sounds a nature while there.
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